Jairus Lopez
@esdeath active 7 years, 10 months ago-
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Hope you don’t mind me re-quoting you. But I need you to understand what I honed in on in while reading your blog post.
“Here in the Philippines, only drug pushers and drug lords are being killed and hardened criminals too.”
~ Are you sure about that? Because dead people can’t talk. Did they ever come to trial or were they just shot in the streets like dogs??
“In the US & EU human beings who are not being born yet are being killed by the millions every year in the pretext of ‘choice’.”
~ Truer words were never spoken. It’s a shame and a disgrace.
“So don’t lecture us on human rights.”
Who’s lecturing you folks? I just read a news headline that we’re trying to impeach our own president! Who’s got time to lecture y’all? We’re busy! Really really busy!! -
These are what I am sure are heart felt ideas. You obviously love your country but is killing really the answer. Isn’t that a bit dramatic? Or, do the drug lord and pushers need to be killed? I live in the US and believe me I am not happy with Mr. Trump. I hate liars and big business jerks who come in and think they know it all. It takes many heads to do the best and right thing. Not just one person.
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We in the Philippines unfortunately don’t have the facilities you in the US have to lock up 1 out of 10 persons in federal, state and prisons ran by private corporation. Is killing drug lords and pushers morally wrong? That would depend on whether you or a relative of yours have been a victim of drugs.
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Mam. My comments to your statements are presented with a genuine respect and concern for the nation of the Phillipines. Please don’t take offense. But I take issue with what you’ve said.
* “Is killing drug lords and pushers morally wrong?”
The answer is Yes. Because “killing” is morally wrong.
But not many will argue that point in your country for fear the next bullet may have their name on it.
At the rate things are going in your country (per what is reported via our media), you really don’t know if the next bullet has your name on it. How do you know you don’t have an enemy who would be very happy to use permission to engage in “extra judicial killings” as a convenient way to get rid of you? You don’t know that do you?
Do you really think such “authorized activities” are the way to clean up a country and make life better for the citizens? When a person has been given the power to pull the trigger and never has to bring the accused to justice for trial, and they don’t have to show their face either, you open the door to an “OFFICIAL convenient form of murder”? That’s scary. That’s actually scarier than ruthless drug dealers roaming the streets.
You say a distinction is being made and only “drug dealers and hardened criminals” are the targets of the Deaths Squads. Really? Dead people can’t talk. So you just have to take the killer’s word for it don’t you?
You can’t justify those killings (synonym: murders) by saying that you don’t have enough prisons to put the prisoners in like we do in America. Seriously???
I hope your faith in a generation to protect freedom and democracy proves to be a solid ground for you to stand on.
For the record mam: “Extra judicial killings” are a very real threat to freedom and democracy anywhere in the world. Because when leaders are willing to employ that “method of problem solving” in their own country, what’s to stop them from implementing a similar measure as a “foreign policy” for dealing with another country. Killing get easier and easier. Especially when you don’t fear punishment for doing it. For real!
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It was a proud moment for Filipinos when the EdSA revolution succeeded. Ninoy Aquino may have been the catalyst that united us in toppling the Marcos dictatorship, but without the millions of ordinary freedom loving Filipinos, EDSA could not have happen. Unfortunately after more than 30 years that historic event has just become a memory. Worst still is that today history is being rewritten by people with vested interest in order to rehabilitate the image of Ferdinand Marcos.”Is the Filipino worth dying for?” you ask. I have faith that this present generation will, like their older generation raise up to protect freedom and democracy if and when it is threaten.
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Young woman are looking for what every woman wants–love and a family. I think they should be concentrating on school and a career before they start having committing relationships and get pregnant. They shouldn’t be shamed for decisions they have made. They need to be backed and helped. Giving them a chance is what is needed. It has been done, can’t go back, and they don’t need to make it any harder than it probably already is. If the young mothers are good moms then that is a good thing.
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Young woman should first find out whether the guy she loves is sincere towards her or not. If the guy is really sincere, then she can plan wedding in the future which after she finish her study or after obtaining a stable career. But of course it is up to their choice whether to marry early or not and as their parents should support them because even if they got no support from their friends or other people at least they have support from their family.
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I am actually for the death penalty especially that there are a lot of raped victims who were raped and killed. But this should undergo a really thorough investigation and once proven really guilty, should be meted out the death penalty.
For me, having the death penalty back, will deter those rapists and killers from doing them.
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What you have said is very true. Usually women are the victims when it comes to this. And this happens especially when one leaves work very late and has to use the side walks in order to get to the station or get home. And this is when hooligans will take advantage and do their evil acts. But again just like you have said it’s good to avoid using streets that are empty or desserted especially when you are alone. Also when you are boarding a bus try to avoid those which are empty or which have men only. And its also true that you are vulnerable to be attacked in your own car while packed. It’s very easy for someone to come and attack you at that point that’s why we are always adviced to get out of the car when it’s parked.
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I think men and women alike need to go with their gut feelings. If you are alone and their is a person trying to get a ride you need to use common sense and go with your gut feeling. Is this really something I want to get into? Is this smart? Common sense isn’t always common but it needs to be.
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How about love for loves sake? Marriage is two people who want to enter into a life’s contract together. Doesn’t matter if traditional or gay. Love is where it is at.
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Here’s how I see this. We are all going to die some day. It’s better to be loved same sex or different sex, than never been in love at all. Because never been in love at all is more painful.
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